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Windows 7: First ssd installation procedure ?

Hi All,
Firstly thanks for reading, I wanted to build a new system some time ago but circumstances have pretty much stopped that for now so I have decided to just update a few things in my old work horse starting with the hard drive, I have purchased a Samsung SSD 840 along with W7 Pro 64bit. I assume I just unplug my existing drives and plug this one into sata 1 and install the OS ?? or do I, is there a procedure I need to be aware of first, I.e. bios settings etc ?
Thanks for any advice as I am a total noob with SSD's, it came with a disk also, do I need this ?
Cheers,
V.

Yep, you would do the same as if it was a HDD. One thing to check is to make sure that you have AHCI/SATA enabled in your BIOS for the best performance. This would be the same for any SATA hard drive (HDD/SSD) though.

Ah..so do i understand that as..plug the ssd in while W7 premium is working on an existing HDD and do the diskpart from there... ? then unplug all drives, plug the SSD into sata1 and install my W7 Pro on the newly created partition ?
Sorry mate, i did warn you i am a noob

Ah..so do i understand that as..plug the ssd in while W7 premium is working on an existing HDD and do the diskpart from there... ? then unplug all drives, plug the SSD into sata1 and install my W7 Pro on the newly created partition ?
Sorry mate, i did warn you i am a noob

Yes, that's it. When you want to boot from the SSD, you will have to change the bootorder in the BIOS.

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